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The gurus of Hong Kong's electronica scene Celestial are the answer to Europe's Massive Attack, especially the release of their third cd entitled Hong Kong Dub-Station from the independent label Drum Music.

Producer Peter Millward has once again brought together some of Hong Kong's dopest talent such as Shakuhachi master Sunny Yeung who is featured quite often on Hong Kong Dub-Station, then you have the smooth and angelic vocals of Angelita Li, along with jazz guitarist Eugene Pao, rapper/producer Eddie Chung and Dave Packer on harmonica, each collectively incorporating important styles that help Celestial reach creative levels of electronica profession.

Hong Kong Dub-Station is a blend of lite reggae and punk with heavy accents of asian musical influence which creates a texture of worldly sounds and zen temples trips ranging from down-tempo to drum and bass. More advanced than the american electronica groups it's a surprise that Celestial has not been picked up by a major label or distribution company.

Hot tracks from this set include ‘Pounding Waves’, ‘Nepal Palace’, ‘Itsuki’, ‘The Best Years Of Our Lives’, ‘She Dragon’, and the cover of the bossa nova classic ‘How Insensitive’.

This cd stands high on my list of hot recording for the year of 2004, don't let this one slip by

Review by Evolution of Media (EOMentertainment.com)

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The third in the series of albums from Celestial once again invokes a pan-Asian dubscape of hypnotic rhythms and deep space textures. Another tectonic phase shift from Celestial merges the sounds of 70’s Jamaican b-sides with top Asian instrumentalists and digital tech-know-how. Rhythms and sounds from dub plates, collide with melodies and textures through zen temple gates… Trip the light dubtastic in the dancehall of the mind.

Musicians featured again include Hong Kong’s number one Erhu Player, Hsin Hsiao Hung; the Musical Ambassadors of Nepal, trio ‘Sur Sudha’; Hong Kong’s very own Shakuhachi Master, Sunny Yeung; Asia’s jazz guitar genius, Eugene Pao and flitting between China and France, Dave Packer on Harmonica. Multi-talented vocalist Angelita Li offers vocals in English and Portuguese, though she’s just as much at home singing in Cantonese or Mandarin. And Drum's Eddie Chung supplies some Augustus Pablo style Melodica.